- Nov 07, 2020
Speak Quotes
The languages, and limits, people speak within.
A couple of these speak quotes are about language and identity specifically, children translating for family members, and a cultural background where the expected native language was never actually spoken at home. The Language collection covers this in more depth.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speak less but act more.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In truth, men speak too much of danger.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a weird obsession with people who can speak multiple languages. I'd love to be able to do that.
- Nov 07, 2020
I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you're going to be inexperienced, naive, untested, and totally right. And then, in those moments, you have to make a choice: is this a time to speak up, or hang back?
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should be on Broadway. You have to sing, you have to dance, you have to speak well, and I'm good at all of those!
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills. I can speak Russian, I can speak French. I know about Chanel. Especially vintage Chanel. I know what Halston is. All of these things, but they can't really be applied to a nine-to-five.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
- Either
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020